Bookbinding and its auxiliary branches . e name of the book is lettered inthe second panel. In the third panel the name of thedivision in which the book is used, the year, the booknumber, or smaller subheads are lettered. In the fourthpanel the name of the concern is lettered; if the concernhas branch offices in other cities, the name of the city mayalso appear. The title should be as concise as possible, and at notime should more be required than above book-lovers labor under the erroneous impressionthat the entire title-page should be lettered in gold on theback. It would be j
Bookbinding and its auxiliary branches . e name of the book is lettered inthe second panel. In the third panel the name of thedivision in which the book is used, the year, the booknumber, or smaller subheads are lettered. In the fourthpanel the name of the concern is lettered; if the concernhas branch offices in other cities, the name of the city mayalso appear. The title should be as concise as possible, and at notime should more be required than above book-lovers labor under the erroneous impressionthat the entire title-page should be lettered in gold on theback. It would be just as fitting to have the entire tableof contents on the back in gold! Points should never beused except for abbreviations. Catch words such as ofthe need not be in a separate line of smaller type, and 250 BOOKBINDING wherever practicable should be placed with other and short lines should be alternated as much as pos-sible. A word should never be broken, as it is preferableto use smaller type. When the books are thin and the. lines are long, letter the back lengthwise, beginning at thehead. The natural lay of the book is on the back, andbooks so lettered will read regularly from left to it stands on the shelf it reads downward. Manyfinishers letter such books from the tail up. This is obvi-ously impracticable and should not be tolerated. Whenbooks are very thin and bound in half leather, the letter-ing should be on the front cover. Type.—All back lettering should be in caps, with aplain, open-face type and deeply cut. The type for thesecond panel should be a trifle larger than the third orfourth. On blank-books the title is usually of two orthree lines, and the opinion prevails that the space shouldbe taken up with type. The judicious use of spaces inlettering is always recommended. If the type is therequired height for the book, but the lines are too shortfor the back, place spaces between the letters. Thirty-sixpoint, or not to exceed one-half of an i
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